http://dx.doi.org/10.59704/6c1f6cfed30ceef9 https://verfassungsblog.de/greenpeace-slapp-energy-transfer/ Silencing Greenpeace - Can the EU Prevent the Chilling Effect on Democracy From Crossing the Atlantic? Eckes, Christina Paiement, Phillip eng 2025-03-31 electronic resource text/html ddc:342 Anti-SLAPP Civil Disobedience Donald Trump Environmental Activism Greenpeace International | Amsterdam SLAPP Greenpeace International | Amsterdam Verfassungsblog Verfassungsblog--2366-7044 Can the EU Prevent the Chilling Effect on Democracy From Crossing the Atlantic? In a stark example of a Strategic Lawsuit Against Public Participation (SLAPP), a United States (US) state court compelled Greenpeace to pay hundreds of millions of dollars for facilitating trespass, conversion, nuisance, defamation, and civil conspiracy. The EU has correctly recognized the harm posed by SLAPPs in so far that they diminish civil society’s capacity to represent under- or unrepresented interest groups, and leverage civil law proceedings to stifle dissent in favor of the economically and politically powerful. Now, we will see if the Anti-SLAPP Directive is robust enough to protect European civil society actors from abusive lawsuits.